ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 243893
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| Date: | Wednesday 28 June 1944 |
| Time: | 02:10 LT |
| Type: |  Junkers Ju 88 G-1 |
| Owner/operator: | Stab IV./NJG 3 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 710880 |
| MSN: | D5+AF |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Pepinusfortstraat, Glabbeek, Flemish Brabant -
 Belgium
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Düsseldorf airfield, Germany |
Takeoff at 00:37 hrs for a Feindflug (operational sortie) against RAF Bomber Command incursions in France.
The 31 year-old Kommandeur of IV./NJG 3, Hauptmann Franz Buschmann, perished together with his Bordfunker Uffz. Hinrich Schmalfeldt, in a 239 Squadron Mosquito attack near Brussels. Uffz. Heinrich Bode, the crew’s Bordschütze, managed to bale out injured, and noted in his Flugbuch: “Were subjected to gunfire from British Mosquito from behind and above, on left-hand side. Left wing burned immediately. Pilot and Bordfunker dead, got injured myself. Baled out at 3.800 metres. I had two good comrades!”
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
https://luchtvaartgeschiedenis.be/content/junkers-ju-88-710880-bij-bunsbeek
Google Maps
NVM (NJG3_IV_036); VDK
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 16-Oct-2020 08:11 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 07-Nov-2022 01:41 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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